Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Myth, manifested
2 min readSep 15, 2020
Sometime it feels as though every director/writer believes that weaving a Greek myth into the story somehow chemically transforms it into a richer, deeper, more weighted story. That because it reflects a great Homeric or Euripidic tragedy that it can lean on this pre-written narrative as the backbone of its essence.
Such is not the case here.